This article make my heart ache. I read it and see that I do not work for an organization that understands what Joel Spolsky talks about in his article The Development Abstraction Layer. I hope to one day work in a development shop like that. So if you want to know what I am talking about take a look at that article.
*sigh*
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Ian
I don’t disagree with your aching heart, but there are some flaws in a world that values programmers while denigrating artists. Sure Dolly Parton may not “know how to plug in a microphone”, but she, sure as hell, should. People are not born “prima donnas”, but on the way to becoming that they should learn the ropes. Multi-skilling is not to be sneezed at. There will come a time, when skills of all kinds will be needed, just to survive.
james, I not saying that a programer should not know how to run a server that they have a web application on but speacking from experience you run into a situation of “jack of all trades and master of none”. But you have to see that Dolly Parton should nto have to plug in the mic. All she should be doing is walking out on stage and singing. Singing being what she does best. Know what I mean?
Ian, I don’t think we are speaking of different things. Dolly is at the top of her profession now, although she does divesify into other areas of entertainment occasionally. The point I was making earlier was to suggest that, in an earlier time, Dolly would have had to do far more front and back of house work than is expected of her today. Cheers, James